John McTernan Articles

Sir Walter Scott asked: ‘Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,/ ‘Who never to himself hath said’, / ‘This is my own, my native land! / ‘Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,/ ‘As home his footsteps he hath turned,/ ‘From wandering on a foreign strand!’ Now we...

Gough Whitlam died this week. In Britain he was probably known for the fact that his Labor government was outrageously dismissed by Governor-General John Kerr. Gough's line on this is one of the most famous in Australian political history – 'Well may we say God Save...

Three cheers for Lord Reith. Not simply for the BBC, though a smile might have passed his lips when he saw the Scottish National party lose it and try to storm Pacific Quay. He would have relished his great British institution outraging the Yessers with its sheer...

Last night I received an email from the Labour party. It was about foxhunting. The issue of the day yesterday. My only regret was that the email hadn't gone out earlier – it would surely have been an issue that would have boosted our vote in Heywood and Middleton...